Dr Peter (Chee Choong) Fong

MBBS, FRACP

Peter is a Medical Oncologist specialising in Prostate Cancer, all urological cancers, and Experimental Therapeutics (Oncology Phase I trials). He was a first-class honours graduate of the University of Queensland, Australia in 1994.

He trained in Australia and New Zealand hospitals, gaining his specialist qualifications in 2003 and locumed at Auckland Hospital. Between 2004 and 2008, he undertook a clinical research fellowship at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London in Phase I Oncology Drug Development, being an investigator in many trials. He spent 2 years in the laboratory doing post-graduate translational research on targeted agents at the Institute of Cancer Research, University of London. Thereafter he was in the Prostate Cancer Drug Trials unit.

Peter returned to Auckland Hospital in 2008 and started the medical oncology prostate cancer practice in NZ. He was the team leader in Genitourinary Cancer for over 10 years. He is involved with local and international academic alliance groups. He is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland. His interest in novel therapeutics and cancer biology means he continues to work in the early phase trials unit, ACTC (Auckland Cancer Trials Centre), an Academic Health Alliance collaboration between Auckland Hospital and the University of Auckland.

He is a principal investigator in numerous urological cancer clinical trials from Phase I to III. He has published widely in major peer-reviewed journals.

Whilst Peter focuses on evidence-based practice and discusses novel therapeutics, he tailors his discussion with patients according to their needs.